River Film Festival

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Mission / description
The 12th River Film Festival is an international festival of shorts that will be held in Padova (Italy) from 15th - 30th June 2018. The Festival is organized by the Associazione Cultura…le Researching Movies and is sponsored by the Comune di Padova Assessorato alla Cultura (Padua City Council - Cultural Office) and the University of Padua. The festival is totally free entrance.
The films will once again be shown on the screen on the raft moored in the middle of the 16th century fluvial port used for trade between Padua and Venice at the city gate of Porta Portello. This enchanting setting is just one of the many features that attract people to RFF year after year! full text less text

Dates

Open call: Aug 01, 2017

Notification date: Mar 31, 2018

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Fees

Fees range from 3.86 to 12.35 EUR (0.00 to 0.00 USD) . See submission categories for details about fees.

Awards

Total prize money: 0.00 USD
Other prizes: Laurels, certificates and a River Award (Murano glass sculpture made by Venetian artist).

Festival sections

100 seconds

Animation

Documentary

Extreme shorts

Graduation (School films)

International shorts

Italian shorts

Regional shorts

short produced in the Veneto Region - Italy

General rules

Terms & Conditions
Films must have been completed after 1st January 2017.
Films can be documentary, student, narrative, fiction or animation.
Total running time must be from 100 sec. to 30 minutes in length, including front and back credits.
The short film can be in any language or any genre. All non-English language films must have English sub-titles.
Shipping and insurance costs for viewing copies are entirely the responsibility of the sender, as are any other costs incurred such as Customs duties etc. Films that are not selected will not be returned unless they are specifically asked for and the postage costs of returning the film are to be borne by the sender. All screener DVD or digital file of the film sent from outside Italy should be accompanied by a declaration stating: “for temporary use; only for cultural purposes, no commercial value”
Entry for the Festival implies unconditional acceptance of the published regulations. Should any dispute arise, the festival organizers will have the right of final decision on all that is not specified in the Regulations. Should there be controversy, the Padova Law Courts are competent to deal any litigation.

Selection
The Films will be selected by a panel of judges nominated by the Festival. The decision of the selection committee is final.
No work or artist will be either discriminated against or favored by their country of origin, language, age, race, education, gender, ideology, or by their economic resources. Every content, every form, every technique will be admitted with no censorship of any kind except that enshrined in current Italian Law.
Finalists will be notified on our website or by email on or by the 15th March 2018. The River Film Festival will do its best to announce the selected films and winners at the designated time, but will not be held liable for any unforeseeable delays.
The catalogue listing the films selected will be published after the 1st of May 2018.

Awards
The international festival jury will select the best film in each of the following 6 categories for the awards (Jury Laurels, certificates and a River Award (Murano glass sculpture made by Venetian artist).
However, the public decide which films will receive awards (Audience Laurels and certificates

The owners of the winning films must deposit a screener DVD or digital file of the film in the Archives of the Festival. This will only be used for study purposes. Permission will be requested from those who hold the rights to the film should it be required for any other usage.

Winning films must mention the prize awarded whenever shown.
The opening and closing ceremonies of the Festival will be streamed on our website.